By Karen Hui | December 15, 2016 my niece. blonde-brown curls and round cheeks big(ger) eyes/pale pale (brown) skin the neighborhood aunties comment. she’s so white! eyes so big!/mixed children are just prettier she is so pretty. like one of those cherubs from raphael’s sistine madonna faces resting in fat hands/bored demeanors/eyes rolled up to … Continue reading Leng Leng
Illegal Aliens: A Goddamned Prayer for Roma
By Lizza Rodriguez | December 1, 2016 I can assure you all that my mother wasn’t born from a nuclear explosion on Mars she did not tread green slime beneath her, nothing leaked from her backside on the plane. Mama did not come here with a girl in her belly to earn 225 dollars a … Continue reading Illegal Aliens: A Goddamned Prayer for Roma
Reorienting Pornographic Politics
By Chloe Sariego | December 1, 2016 “The ‘sexual mosaic’ of modern society is a dynamic network in which the optimization of power is achieved with and through the multiplication of pleasures, not through their prohibition or restriction.” Spargo, T., 1999. Foucault and queer theory. Concern regarding pornography and the effect on women is a … Continue reading Reorienting Pornographic Politics
Voices from Puerto Rico
By Sofia Collins | December 1, 2016 “You don’t have to stay in your country if you don’t want to, but to want to stay and not be able to because of not finding a job, that is sad.” Gabriela Puig, 30, current Puerto Rican resident I frequently miss the the taste of coffee, rich … Continue reading Voices from Puerto Rico